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• octaplex 10/24/02 
  Description: personal photography/graphics portfolio (Flash)
  Comments: There's actually two versions of the site, both accessible from the splash page – the old "Red Edition 2000-2002" and the new "V8."  The tagline for the old version ("hard style") seems quite appropriate to me – crisp lines and superb graphics (love the thumbnails) plus one of my favorite color schemes.  The content, just like the striking site design, is A1 – outstanding photographs plus digital art in the form of wallpapers.  The new version, launched in the middle of September, is an attempt to simplify – it's still a work in progress but there's many new pictures, with 5 of the 9 sections having been completed.  "I tried to keep it as simple as possible to build a better view for my pictures."  The design of V8 is markedly different than the old version, but just as good.  This time, it's minimal with a nicely done Flash interface – no need to scroll – clean, crisp, and simple.  Spend some time there and enjoy both versions – it's definitely worth it...
   
• fivedays 10/23/02 
  Description: An experimental online diary, interactive narrative. Or whatever you make of it. (Flash/Broadband)
  Comments: "Hard work means hard parties" and when 20 students from TTVO in Tampere, Finland took a 5 day journey to Karlskrona and back, they decided to document it in the form of an experimental diary.  Today's pick, presented via Flash ("it's broadband baby") takes you through each of the 5 days and they warn that you'll have to "explore, search & find" your way through the site.  I'm not giving any clues either, but I'll let you know that there's info on each of the students and the daily entries are interesting combinations of words, images and sound – it's really a fun site and the students built it.  "This is not just another traditional website.  This is something else.  After all, this all took five days of our time."  And I, for one, appreciate it...  [linkdup unfiltered]
   
• Callistonian.NET 10/21/02 
  Description: elegant personal domain full of splendid things
  Comments: There's a bit of a mystery to Marykate's most recent post in her journal.  It seems "three is back" but she says you'll have to ask if you want the URL or if you're not sure who/what "three" is.  6 people have already commented that they know what it is and would like the URL.  I'm glad three's back (I guess) but I don't have a clue who/what it is.  Another entry in the journal gives a "sneak preview" of an "art/charm" project – Marykate's "thoughts in pictures."  It's a cool graphic with the words "never give up without a fight/a great dream awaits you..."  In her webdesign section, there's a similar message – "the dream must absolutely come true."  There's a lot of enjoyable, creative content in Marykate's personal space, which she describes as "a beautifully elegant personal domain."  You'll have to use your [back] button in spots, but there's plenty to explore.  "Charm" is actually the art gallery.  There's also a photography section, Photoshop brushes for download, and a section called "17 wings" with tutorials/resources and a web directory.  Green is her favorite color and she has about a dozen different nicknames.  Marykate strikes me as an interesting personality and the overall site design rocks (If small fonts are a problem for you, I'd suggest using NS or Mozilla, so you can adjust font sizes).  Here's the astounding part (to me, anyway) – Marykate is a 17-year-old high school student...
   
• walrus.nu 10/13/02 
  Description: Poetry soup. With croutons...
  Comments: "This is where I cry havoc and unleash my words. I've been writing bits and pieces since school, but never bothered with an outlet until I started putting my stuff on the net, a number of years ago."  Though Dan's current domain has been in existence for a little over 2 years, he's got 4 poems on the site written from 1991 to 1993.  The next oldest poem is from early 1997, which I'll guess is the year that Dan actually started using the web as an outlet, though I'm not sure where the old site resided.  "The style of writing to be found here is not a style I would employ at work, in a letter, or any other sane context: it's my creative side, pushing its way out through the cracks in my concrete soul. I break rules here and conventions."  The site design is clean and simple with a choice of color schemes and I particularly enjoyed the "diary" and "snippets" sections.  "Wordart" is interesting, too, and includes some others' images and words.  Dan's personal creative space is unpretentious and engaging...
   
• lookupthere 10/6/02 
  Description: a gallery of illustrations
  Comments: Today's pick isn't about the design.  The site navigates well and the design is clean, but Josh is an artist, not a web designer.  The source says the pages were generated with one of those big, typical portal's "PageBuilder" application.  It did the job.  It's really about the art.  Josh is a talented illustrator and the site is a few years old.  The "old" version has two volumes of works and the "new" has one series of works so far.  I bookmarked the site a long time ago because I liked what I saw.  When I just recently revisited, the new section really grabbed me – mixed media, colored pencil, ink, and markers – I like his style...
   
• Photomatisme 10/2/02 
  Description: faces of anonymous websurfers
  Comments: Does the Internet have a face?  Sure, some sites include a mugshot of the person behind them, but all-in-all, it's easy for people to hide behind their sites and present just what they want to present publically – hardly like talking to someone face-to-face.  Then, there's the site's visitors.  Who are they?  It's hard to know.  So, the web may indeed have a face, but you seldom see it.  Today's pick changes all that – it's been around a few years and I have to admit that coolstop is hardly the first to recognize it.  The French tagline translates to English as "test of filing for a face of the Internet" and the content is hundreds of anonymously submitted photos of faces, each telling its own little story.  There's some side attractions as well and if people pics interest you, you're in for some fun browsing...